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Community College prof. Pedagogy nerd. Media/Pop Culture researcher. Spicy food enthusiast. Hallmark movie stan. #blacklivesmatter #blackgirlmagic 🐝 🏳️‍🌈
Apr 3, 2022 6 tweets 1 min read
Every Hallmark romance movie is like "yeahhhh you wanna live in a small town"

And every Hallmark mystery series is like "YOU ABSOLUTELY DO NOT WANT TO LIVE IN A SMALL TOWN" You could find (or reconnect with) your one true love OR you could literally die
Apr 1, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
Family dramas love to start the series off by killing the patriarch 😭 "Am I...the drama?"

Yes, sir.
May 31, 2021 8 tweets 2 min read
Some highlights from the first half of Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead):

Why Ungrade? Why Grade? (Susan D. Blum)
-Our principal task is educating all students, not ranking them (5) How to Ungrade (Jesse Stommel)
-Grades are currency for a capitalist system that reduces teaching and learning to a mere transaction. They are an institutional instrument of compliance that works exactly because they have been so effectively naturalized.
May 31, 2020 30 tweets 5 min read
People who want to claim to know how MLK would feel should be required to read more than the “I Have a Dream Speech.”

I recommend starting with “Letter From a Birmingham Jail.”

africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/L… "You deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham. But your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations. I am sure that none of you would want to rest content with the superficial kind...
Aug 5, 2019 24 tweets 13 min read
Opening words from @slamteacher #digped We are here to imagine @slamteacher Moving into our cohorts now. This week, I'm on the Inclusive Design track, which is headed up by @TheTattooedProf #digped
Apr 23, 2019 34 tweets 5 min read
Since some of y'all want to be disingenuous about the costs of college, I will just mention that even with a full tuition scholarship for undergrad as well as having tuition covered in my MA and PhD, I still ended up with student loan debt.

How?

Well... First of all, tuition isn't the only thing you have to pay when you go to college. You have to pay fees. You also have to pay room & board (if you live on campus) or rent + groceries + other bills (if you live off campus).
Apr 9, 2018 10 tweets 2 min read
Thoughts:

#AQuietPlace made 50 mil.

Its speech is mostly conveyed via ASL & subtitles.

A lot of y'all saw the movie.

You were capable of watching it in a movie theater w/ subtitles.

So there shouldn't be a problem w/ having subtitled/captioned movies in theaters.

Right? I'm just asking because when Nyle DiMarco was talking about his terrible experience of trying to see Black Panther at the movie theater, some of y'all acted like putting captions/subtitles on the screen would be the greatest imposition of your lives.